Interview

Modes of collaboration

Production
Co-production

This first video weaves together excerpts from rehearsals and a conversation between the choreographer and her dramaturgical consultants, Thea Patterson and Julie Tamiko Manning. It offers a rare opportunity to step inside the creative process, as Alida describes why she chose to work with these consultants and why they, in turn, chose to support the project.

Project

My Grandmother’s Threads (work-in-progress)

My Grandmother’s Threads (work-in-progress)

Diffusion
My Grandmother’s Threads is a multidisciplinary choreographic project by Alida Esmail, a Canadian dance and theatre artist whose work explores the body as a carrier of memory, history, and lived experience. Grounded in her Indo-African ancestry, the project traces a family lineage from Muslim India...

Events

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The dramaturg’s role and perspectives on the work’s author
Event recording

The dramaturg’s role and perspectives on the work’s author

«L’auteur·e en danse : pluralité des expériences» took place at the Conseil des Arts de Montréal on October 18, 2019. With: Katya Montaignac, Angélique Willkie, Sophie Michaud, Georges Azzaria, Francis Ducharme, Lise Gagnon, Sylviane Martineau, Silvy Panet-Raymond and Isabelle Poirier.

c. Ariane Dessaulles
Event recording, Excerpt from work

Danser Joe at École secondaire Monseigneur-Richard

In the winter of 2024, Catherine Tardif and Patrick Lamothe led the Danser Joe workshop imagined by Ginelle Chagnon with Secondary 1 and 2 students at École Monseigneur-Richard in Verdun. Some photos of the February 27, 2024 presentation:
Involvement of dancers in the creation of works: a look at co-creation
Event recording

Involvement of dancers in the creation of works: a look at co-creation

With Francis Ducharme, Marie Claire Forté, Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo, Lucie Boissinot, Andrea Carrion Garcia, Mélanie Demers, Danièle Desnoyers, Katya Montaignac, Silvy Panet-Raymond, Angélique Willkie and Jamie Wright Moderator: Anne Thériault «L’auteur·e en danse : pluralité des expériences» took place at the Conseil des Arts de…

© Musée des civilisations
Publication

Exhibiting Performance Art: a Historiographical Laboratory?

Presented at Entretiens Jacques-Cartier (2014) Published in Thema, revue des Musées de la civilisation (2015)